6:30a alarm, up by 6:45; metabolic usuals by 8a * * * Long thoughts about how character build choices led very different role-played portrayals of Tuzo and Clank in the last campaign. Tuzo was built on optimal melee features at the expense of soft skills or options that tie into less cut-and-dried aspects of the game. It's not a stunning new observation that a huge chunk of 5th Edition D+D consists of exhaustive coverage of resolving combat. What was a new thought today is that optimizing Tuzo fo... (...more)

"Anglophile" denotes someone who "admires England, its people, and its culture". Admiration "Cinephiles" and "audiophiles" are movie and music enthusiasts, respectively. Enthusiasm We only find that "-phile" suffix twisted to denote pathology in psychology's raft of "paraphilias": necrophilia, zoophilia, et al., and of course the one in current news 4385294 times a day: pedophilia. It's too bad that term is so entrenched in lay discourse. I believe it muddies popular understanding and leaves ... (...more)

The average 3d6 dice roll is 10.5 (because [1+2+3+4+5+6]/6 = 3.5 )
The average 1d20 roll is also 10.5 ( [1+2+3...20] / 20 = 10.5 )

I undoubtedly knew this full well a long time ago, but I re-realized it today. Why is it interesting, because the odds of rolling "close to average" are higher on 3d6 than on 1d20. The outcome probability distribution is flat for the d20 bar-chart, vs. a "normal curve" (high in the middle, falling off symmetrically) for 3d6.

usuals
completely recovered from vax soreness so no excuse not to do some pushups

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yesterday's nap 3ish to 6:30? 7? didn't prevent sleeping thru the night. Thanks, soporific gummi!

vax site a little sore, head a little swimmy. probably back to 100% tomorrow if not sooner.

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